Professional and social characteristics of the Jewish population in the first Czechoslovak republic

The study focuses on reconstructing the professional and social structures of the Jewish population during the First Czechoslovak Republic. It is based on official Czechoslovak statistical information, which means it only analyses samples of people who identified themselves as being of Jewish faith and people who in censuses identified themselves as ethnic Jews. The author attempts to draw her conclusions mainly from the larger and more comprehensive sample of Jews (from the perspective of faith). The characteristics established therefore do not capture the conversion rate among Jews. The basic goal was to determine the difference and specific features of the Jewish populations in the lands that made up then Czechoslovakia. In this context, attention is also devoted to settlement by national land, by reproductive behaviour, and by housing conditions. Reprinted by permission of the Czech Statistical Office